Autumn Has Arrived

After the "extended" Summer, it felt and looked properly Autumnal for the first time.
  However, the day ended off on a pleasant note with some dusk colours.

Mug Shot

 

 

I seem to have acquired a random collection of mugs for no real reason, so as a doodler, I decided to put them to good use.

Sun-kissed Cat.

 

 

A neighbour's cat (don't know her name) basking in the evening rays of the late summer sunshine.

USB Lights

 

 

Just bought a new powered USB hub after my old one gave up the ghost. I think the cool blue lights makes them look like isolinear chips on the Enterprise D. I should think so as this thing costed me £25!

Purr-fect End To The Day

 

 

This is where my famed west-facing hobby room comes into its own at this time of the year as the setting sun shines directly into it.

Fluffs & Princess

 

 

 

 

In the past few days I've been checking up on my sister's two maine coons while she is away on holiday, today I decided to take my Lumix compact with me even though the natural light was poor due to very overcast conditions (but didn't want to use the flash).

Mid-Summer Sunrise

 

 

We are at this time of the year where we have to be up at 4.45 am to catch any kind of sunrise, in this case I went to the bathroom to answer the call of nature and noticed this wash of orange light through the window.

Benji

 

 

Meet my nephew's new pooch.

Picking my nose . . .

Me waiting for . . .

 

. . . either summer to start or my photography mojo to kick in.

The Bridge Is Gone

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The concertina bridge that could be seen from my front garden has been taken down today. For the first time in the 33 years of living in the same address, the landscape is now looking that little bit more threadbare. It was just as well as the bridge was an eyesore anyway.
  I then took some other odd and sods photos while the weather was being nice at the time.

Mock Suns

Spotted on both side of the setting sun here at Folkestone. Seems to be a good week for light optics so far.

Halo

 

 

 

 

 

 

There was a vivid sun halo today, so I took myself to a nearby hill to get some decent photos out of it. But by the time I got there, the halo had faded away and it was freezing cold in that exposed part of the town.

Merry Easter

 

 

I've also included a sensible photo of myself in the interests of balance.

Great Ball Of Fire

 

 

Just fired up my old plasma ball - it still works after 15 odd years.

Cheriton Light Show

Storm Imogen

 

 

 

 

 

While it was very windy but dry and bright, I took myself down to Folkestone sands with the camera during a spring high tide at 10.20 am.

The Blue Hour

I took this with the Lumix compact while waited for the nacreous clouds to appear (which never did).

Solar Flare

 

 

While I was waiting for nacreous clouds to form this morning, I did a bit of light painting.

PS: Those clouds never did appear.

Three Of A Kind

 

 

 

 

 

Thought I'd try and get back into my experimental indoors photography using my trusty D7000 and kit lens - and here it is called "Three Of A Kind".

No photoshop type layering was involved in this, this is just a single long exposure in a dark room and a spare flash gun was set off three times to pick myself out as I changed position. The only thing I've done to this photo was to greyscale it.

It has a bit of Monique Froese (Edgar Froese's wife) influence about it.